There is no story unless you’ve written it.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONWe cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.
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I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.
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We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It’s about as important as things get.
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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.
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I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.
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It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.
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I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I’m doing or why you’re paying me so much money. What’s important is that you continue to do so.
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The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.
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It’s in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.
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The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.
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